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There are other changes as well.
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Moving on with the current of the years.
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To a new day, we go on.
It's time to move on and move forward.
PassPorter is a small business, and for many years it supported our family. But the world changed, print books took a backseat to the Internet, and for a long time now it has been unable to make ends meet. We've had to find new ways to support our family, which means new careers and less and less time available to devote to our first baby, PassPorter.
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I have a cat who is irresistably drawn to butter.....don't know why. If it is exposed at all, he tries to get to it. We have taken to keeping the butter in a plastic Snapware container that he CANNOT get into! I have even found this on the floor but because it's plastic, unbroken! It's not pretty but better than broken dishes and tossing out sticks of butter with little kitty cat tongue prints all over them!
Sorry to hear about the butter dish....that really s***s! I really are unhappy having the cats with you, it might be best if you talked to your DD and made arrangements for her to come get them or to help you arrange for a new home. Hang in there!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
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woooooooo.......I already took "blame"......Sorry .............re-placing ........put in another place.... in the house ......away from the kitchen overnight.......not to abandon....animals/child breaking = apples and oranges....no way to compare....I don't keep "the good china" stored away......we use even the Waterford crystal all the time and many nice things have been broken....but they were used with love.....Sorry that my vent upset anyone here......My well-fed cats (Pretty & Punky) are ready for bed.....by the way....they sleep with me . From now on......I'll close the bedroom door.
My cats got into our cabinets until we put the child locks on the cabinet doors! Yes, my home was child-proofed before we ever had children, just because of our cats! Love them but they are very smart and can be very sneaky animals. Very good at getting into things but at least the child locks keep them out of the cabinets!
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MaryLou - so sorry that I read your post wrong - just such a sensitive topic to me - From the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry and much love to you, Pretty and Punky and still pixies for finding a replacement butter dish!!!
MaryLou - so sorry that I read your post wrong - just such a sensitive topic to me - From the bottom of my heart, I'm sorry and much love to you, Pretty and Punky and still pixies for finding a replacement butter dish!!!
Ann.....no problem.....my animals are adopted from the Animal Rescue League here in MA........I'm dealing with just the plate for the butter (no cover)......and it goes in the refrigerator.....I hate hard butter......but I don't like the "cats" sampling it more.
I'm dealing with just the plate for the butter (no cover)......and it goes in the refrigerator.....I hate hard butter......but I don't like the "cats" sampling it more.
I so feel your pain there....butter with kitty cat tongue prints all over it is just YUCK!!!!!!
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Jennifer / Eeyore is my favorite!! OMG - He's sooooo grown up!!!! And an EAGLE SCOUT!! I can still remember my cute little Tiger Cub! 2016 Reading Goal - 75 books
One of our cats - the one who stays in and around my bedroom - has a habit of defecating and occasionally urinating outside her litter boxes, whenever she's upset or hasn't gotten what she wanted. Hardly a day goes by, that one of us doesn't have to clean up after her. It's so bad, we have a "Poo Patrol" bit on our household whiteboard, so we can track whose turn it is to do the next cleanup.
This has been going on for a long, long time now. Most of her furry little life, really. I have to be very careful where I walk if I need to use the bathroom in the night - I have had the misfortune (more than once) to step right in a fresh, warm pile of ... well. I'm sure you've got the idea.
This is despite having TWO litterboxes, in separate locations, both of which she HAS used. And both of which I cleaned out quite thoroughly, just yesterday.
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Well, today she slipped out of the laundry/hall/bathroom/bedroom area we keep her in most of each day (because the floors are linoleum and hardwood, so cleaning her messes is easier), into the Family room ... which has a cream-colored carpet. A carpet that cost something over $1,000 ... and was an alternative to over $2,000 of refinishing on the wood floor in that room (the center was covered by an area rug for decades, so it's still nice and light colored - but the perimeter is sun-darkened to a deep red-brown hue).
When I went to gently herd her back into the back rooms for the morning, and clearly wasn't going to take "no" for an answer from her ... she got very, angrily vocal with me ... and defecated right on the carpet. Then ran under the big table, and defecated again.
I don't often have a physically-demonstrated temper, but ... well, I seriously lost my cool, and slammed a door very, very hard. So hard, it jumped partway past the doorjamb and got stuck closed ... so I had to literally kick it open. The knob, latch, the door where they were, and the doorjamb where the latch goes? Destroyed. We need a new door now. Even worse, it's the door between her area, and that damned cream-colored carpet. Right now it's held shut with a length of cord, anchored to a 5-gallon bottle of water.
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Ten to fifteen more years. That's how much longer she'll likely live. And I can't just give her up; with her behavior, she's not adoptable. Bringing her to a shelter is a death sentence, and no matter how frustrated and angry I get with her ... she's done nothing worthy of execution. And every time I look at her, I remember the tiny, 2-month-old kitten we brought home ... and who used to sleep curled up and purring on my chest for hours at a time.
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So I've got a decade or more of watching where I step, cleaning up after an animal that is supposed to be clean and neat (and use litter boxes), and probably winding up with faeces- and/or urine-stains in a thousand dollar rug no matter how diligently we clean up after her.
So. Yeah. I'll take a broken butter dish over what I have, any day of the week.
Remember: no matter how naughty they've been to you so far? It could be oh so very much worse.
Pax.....sounds like you need to call the guy from that show, "My Cat from H***."
That's gotta be exhausting!!!!
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OH Pax.....................yes, it could be much worse........"poo patrol"......that tops it. One of mine will pee on clothes or towels left on the floor (if in a "mood" to do so).....but that is it. And cleaning up some butter and shattered dish cover is much easier than what "you guys" have to do.........and replacing the butter dish will be a lot less than replacing your door......and the carpet cleaning.......
This is why I don't have indoor pets. No offense to the cats or anyone who loves their cats, but if DD doesn't want them, then find them a home. You don't love these animals, and their perfectly cat-like behavior angers you. You shouldn't have to keep someone else's pets.
I'm sorry if my other post sounded like I was trivialising what you went through, rella. Or like I was stealing your thunder or anything.
It's just, this is my "happy place", away from WDW itself. And I was (still am) very, very unhappy about the situation here. So when I saw this thread, I had to, just had to, open up and vent a little.
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I'm sorry if my other post sounded like I was trivialising what you went through, rella. Or like I was stealing your thunder or anything.
It's just, this is my "happy place", away from WDW itself. And I was (still am) very, very unhappy about the situation here. So when I saw this thread, I had to, just had to, open up and vent a little.
Thanks for being so understanding.
Pax..........please..........don't be silly........to vent and then to share a vent shows that caring and understanding and compassion is what our PP board is all about. I didn't feel that you did anything to miminize my experience...I felt that you were sharing your experiences with me....and that me feel good (not with what you guys have to do,but).....that you understood the "momentary anger" or unhappiness. This is my happy place, too........especially the sharing and caring.
We also had to use those child proof thingys on our cabinet doors to keep the cats out. They like to look into the cabinets to see if there's anything interesting in there. We just make sure we put up anything we don't want the cats to get into.
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